New entry with new project and with recently released kit: Lancia Delta S4 of the firm Beemax at scale 1/24. A very desired kit because it is an icon of the GrB, and because the kit only existed in resin manufacturing, not very accessible to all the modelers. Here is the box:

But I’m not going to do the Martini livery, Marlboro one will be the choice, car that led Juan Carlos Oñoro in the Spanish gravel rallye Championship in 1987, and he won it. Not to be confused with the car that ran the following two years with Gustavo Trelles, in the same championship.

The car was the unit # 225 that Marku Alen piloted in 1986, which he won in the San Remo rally. Here you have a photo with the chosen livery:

In itself, the pieces come very well, with enough detail that of course you can detail to increase it. It must also be said that they have some burr that we will have to eliminate. In the following photo, we see a pre-assembly of the bodywork where its good forms are seen:

We go to the decals, with another sheet of those that are placed on the edge of the crystals, but that can be painted perfectly, so that the decay does not cancel the rivets of the crystals that comes with good detail:

For the crystals, I discard the originals of the sides, keeping the one in front and behind, which I cut out from the original piece. In substitution to the sides crystals, I will use Evergreen acetate, which I will cut according to the template made on paper of the contour of the window:

But let’s go part by part. I show you parts of the body that are with the decals on. The drifts were originally covered with carbon fiber decal, but in this decoration, they have an orange line outside. To do this, and once the orange drifts have been painted, the fiber decal has been laid leaving that line in the contour, and cutting off the excess on the opposite side. It was necessary to use a lot of micro liquid and a lot of drier so that they fit well. You can also see the pieces that open the movable pates of the car, with its clap on. These pieces were varnished in matt with Alclad.

But as it took part of the fiber, I decided to sand everything, and put on the decal of Studio27 on which I had put Slotfabric. And there I made a mistake: the white initial decal is transparent a little on the second. But I’m going to leave it like that.

But the spoiler, if it has an orange stripe on the back edge, for which use masking tape Tamiya:

Let’s go with the cockpit. Once put the fiber, I start to put all cables, fixing them with self-adhesive chrome tape, and is on its position with cyano. To the left of the photo, you see a plate of transparent evergreen fixed to the base with white glue, simulating a crystal that covers that piece in truth:

We continue now with the security meshes of the pilot, which has in both sides of the seat. I made them with the protectors of wine bottles, cut with the cuter and we paste with cyano. For the fixings, use a piece of Evergreen cut to size and I included a wire for the subsequent fixing in the safety bow or on the dashboard:

We continue with the Mercedes Gulf of Tamiya, in which I have been putting decals of the brand Slotfabric for the body, and of Studio27 for the carbon decals. Just tell you that I was putting decals for two weekends, being Slotfabric quite bad, as they are not pre-cut, and are very fat, in addition to having a very complicated Orange Gulf.

As always, that’s how I have the model, with the spoiler preassembled to see how it looks:

But let’s go to the beginning. I left the body with the colors blue and orange. From that point on, it was necessary to sand the joints of the paint with water, and start putting decals. For the black lines, I cut the lines of the decals and I put them little by little until I finished with them. Then I started to put the rest:

Next, we put the Slotfabric coves. Say that they do not come pre-cut and you have to cut them by rushing to the letters. I have used the extra strong liquid of Tameo: I put the liquid and leave the decal in its place. I do not touch it until after a minute where I spend rolling a cane with cotton.

The next step I did not take a picture, and it was to paint the set with Titanium SIlver by Zero for the center of the discs. Next, I will mask the center, and painted with Carbon Ceramic gray of Zero (ZP-1319):

We put the decal of Slotfabric to the front glass, and we add both: the base and the wipers, painted in black semi-matt Zero. The edges of the glass are painted with black tamiya semimatte, with the corresponding mask that comes in the kit:

At the same time that I finished the two Opel Manta, and having downtime, I decided to start another project, being in this case, a GT car: Mercedes AMG GT3 !. For this I will use the latest model of Tamiya at 1/24 scale:

But I have to say that I will not use the decoration of the box, but that of Gulf, with the decals of Slotfabric, and the colors of Gravity Colors that it has for sale in Spain (Gravity-colors.com), as in the following photo:

And once the mold marks have been eliminated and a sponge sandpaper was applied to the whole body, we print with it Gravity primer, and now we can see the parts that we have to touch up: the joints of the air inlets of the rear wings:

But before all the photos, the last details. We started by framing the bodywork to paint the window frames with black Semi Matt x18 tamiya, diluted. You have to be careful because in the front and back windows there is no frame, which must be masked very thin:

Y le doy con el aerógrafo pero como veis…muchos granos!

And I give it to him with the airbrush but as you can see … many grains!

We start with the belts. In this case, I use the wider T2M, with the photoetched parts of the kit. For the shoulder protectors, use tape cut from a self-made sheet of Crazy Modeller, which I helped with a bit of cyano to stick behind the belt. The decal is that of the kit but used with Tameo liquid as a base. In addition, I cut a few pieces that I stuck under the buckle to simulate the leftover belt.

And we go to clearcoat the body: two layers of Gravity to 3: 1: 1.5, a little more diluted specifications (3: 1: 1). The first layer was light covering, and the second one at 10 minutes later, so that it covers and shines !!